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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac
Jewels, Literature, Pearls

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Honore de Balzac
Equality, Power, Literature
"La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

Honore de Balzac
Lying, Judging, Literature
"'Le Père Goriot' ('Father Goriot')". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Part II, 1835.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Honore de Balzac
Race, Literature, Finance

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Honore de Balzac
Men, Despair, Literature

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Honore de Balzac
Men, Literature, Poor
"A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Honore de Balzac
Children, Literature, Sovereign
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.172, The Floating Press

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Honore de Balzac
Love, Passion, Literature

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Honore de Balzac
Literature, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous
"The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou".

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Honore de Balzac
Law, Vices, Literature
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.56, The Floating Press

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Honore de Balzac
Exaggeration Is, Literature, Bad Grades

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

Honore de Balzac
Soul, Literature, Habit
"The Vicar of Tours". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1832.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Honore de Balzac
Art, Nature, Literature

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honore de Balzac
Literature, Spirit, Heavenly

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Honore de Balzac
Artist, Literature, Grocers

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Honore de Balzac
Soul, Literature, Virtue
Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.66, Library of Alexandria

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Honore de Balzac
Running, Men, Literature
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.110, The Floating Press

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

Honore de Balzac
Opposites, Literature, Way
"A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Honore de Balzac
Smile, Pregnancy, Literature

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Honore de Balzac
Enchantment, Literature, Study
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.102, The Floating Press

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Honore de Balzac
House, Literature, Ruins

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Honore de Balzac
Beauty, Promise, Literature
"A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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